Dr. Vytautas Malesh, MFA, PhD
email: vmalesh@fiu.edu
EDUCATION
- Wayne State University
- PhD, English, 2018
- Dissertation: “Blue to BDU: the Five Canons of Rhetoric and the Text of the Police Uniform,” supervised by Dr. Frances Ranney
- University of Nevada – Las Vegas
- MFA, Creative Writing, 2009.
- Thesis “Dancing in the Ashes” supervised by Mr. Douglas Unger
- Wayne State University
- BA, English, 2006. Magna Cum Laude. Phi Beta Kappa.
- Senior paper “Like a Wild Animal In A Cage: Interlocking Piety and Sexuality within Tolstoy’s The Kreutzer Sonata” supervised by Dr. Renata Wasserman
TEACHING
- Composition Courses
- English 101 / 102 / 1020 / 1101 / 1102(First-Year Composition)—Approx. 45 Sections
- English 221 (Advanced Composition)—1 Section
- English 101 / 102 / 1020 / 1101 / 1102(First-Year Composition)—Approx. 45 Sections
- Technical and Professional Communication Courses
- English 116 / 3050 / 3213 (Introduction to Technical Communication)— 40+ sections
- English 3060 / 3249 (Oral Reports)—20+ Sections
- English 407a (Business Writing)—6 Sections
- English 7840 (Graduate Technical Communication)—1 Section as TA
- English 116 / 3050 / 3213 (Introduction to Technical Communication)— 40+ sections
- Creative Writing Courses
- English 3800 (Introduction to Creative Writing)—1 Section
- English 3800 (Introduction to Creative Writing)—1 Section
- Web Writing, Rhetoric, Writing Studies, and New Media Courses
- English 3416 – Writing and New Media – 10+ sections
- English 4434 – Writing Studies – 2 Sections
- English 33371 – Rhetorical Theory and Practice – 5 Sections
- English 4930 – Writing for the Web – 1 Section
- English 3416 – Writing and New Media – 10+ sections
PUBLICATIONS
- “Nolo.” ARTIFEX Magazine, Spring 2020
- “Say August,” THAT Literary Review, Spring 2019
- “The Air is Fresh and Sweet,” GNU Journal, Spring 2018
- “After Homecoming” Blunderbuss Magazine, Fall-Winter 2017
- “Trees of Heaven” Hero Magazine, Issue 14, October 2016. Pps 108-109
- “One Thousand Shekels, Fifteen Agurot” The November 3rd Club, February 2010. http://www.wetdryvac.net/November3rdClub/2010/02-2010/fiction/malesh.html
- “The Purse” The Superstition Review, Issue 4, December 2009 https://superstitionreview.asu.edu/issue4/fiction/vytatuasmalesh
- “Hands” Danse Macabre Magazine, Volume 40, November 2009. www.dansemacbre.com
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
- Multimedia in the Magic City: Addressing student barriers in multimedia/multimodal projects at an urban R1 university. – Accepted, later turned away owing to COVID-19 accommodation restrictions.
- “Socio-Cultural Perspectives on the Professional Communication Curriculum”—Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication 2018, Minneapolis, MN
- “Restaurant Rhetoric: Taking (Visual)Rhetoric out for Lunch”—Conference on College Composition and Communication 2018, Kansas City, MO
- “Restaurant Rhetoric: Taking (Visual)Rhetoric out for Lunch”—Rhetoric Society of America 2018, Minneapolis, MN
- “After Homecoming,” short story panel participant—Michigan College English Association Conference 2017, Ypsilanti, MI
- “Tech Comm @ Tech Town”—Association of Teachers of Technical Writing Conference 2017, Portland, OR
- “Tech Comm @ Tech Town” (Accepted – conference cancelled due to inclement weather)—Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication 2016, Savannah, GA
- “I am Because of You: The Politics of Ubuntu and Apology in Post-Apartheid South Africa”—Cultural Rhetorics 2016, Lansing, MI
- “Digital Spaces, Video Faces: Ethos and Discourse in the Online Classroom”—Conference on College Composition and Communication 2016, Houston, TX
- “Dressed to Distress: Introducing Identity Conflict to Professional Writing Classrooms through Fashion and Style”—Michigan College English Association Conference 2015, Grand Rapids, MI
- “How to Be Writing or Multimodal Multigenre Explorations of What it Means to Write”—Conference of Writing Program Adminstrators 2015, Boise, ID
DEPARTMENTAL SERVICE
- Founder, FIU English Teaching Circle
- Created professional collaboration and socialization opportunity for FIU instructors looking to compare best practices and support one another. Open to professors, instructors, and teaching assistants.
- Enthusiastic participation since 2019 – 4 sessions per semester.
- Member, FIU Professional Development Committee
- Contributed to professional development opportunities and workshops, training, and social development.
- Contributed to professional development opportunities and workshops, training, and social development.
- Member, Hiring Committee
- Served on FIU’s 2019 search committee to hire two full-time NTT instructors in writing.
- Served on FIU’s 2019 search committee to hire two full-time NTT instructors in writing.
- Member, Florida International University Technical and Professional Communication Committee.
- Revising, planning, and integrating continuous improvement into FIU’s writing curriculum for business, IT, science, and engineering students.
- Revising, planning, and integrating continuous improvement into FIU’s writing curriculum for business, IT, science, and engineering students.
- Member, Mentoring Committee
- Welcomed and collaborated with new graduate students in order to help them better transition from student to instructor through meetings, discussion, and observation.